Season 6, Podcast 99, Isaiah 42:7-25, “Sing Unto the Lord a New Song,” Pt B.

Season 6, Podcast 99, Isaiah 42:7-25, “Sing Unto the Lord a New Song,” Pt B.In the previous Podcast I introduced the following attributes of the New Song:·      Christ will become a light unto both the Jews and the Gentiles·      The Law of Restoration is part of the New Song. The Law of Restoration contains the following:o   Through the help of angels the gospel will be restored and preached to all the earth.o   The gospel will be preached to the weakest.o   Judgment will be restored to the earth.o   All blessings are assured only upon obedience to specific laws of God. o   That which we sow shall we also reap.o   We shall all be resurrected with perfect bodies.o   The righteous shall be fashioned like unto Christ.o   Those who keep the commandments are part of the Covenant People.As we continue with Isaiah 42, we learn of other attributes of the New Song. Attribute 1: Christ shall remove the scales of darkness and release the prisoners.Isaiah 42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.Isaiah has spoken often of the captivity and exile of the House Israel. Ephraim was taken into captivity by Assyria. Judah was taken into captivity by Babylon. The entire House of Israel was scattered to the four points of the compass. That is one prison they will be released from. They shall return to the Promised Land.By bringing light to the Gentiles, he is also releasing them from spiritual darkness or spiritual blindness. There is another prison that perhaps many of us overlook. We are inclined to forget the dead. Where do people go when they die? Jesus told the thief on the cross that “Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” Peter explains what happens in the spirit world.1 Peter 3:18-20For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.All things are visible to God. He is aware both of all those who live and all those who have died. There is life after death. There is an interim between death and the resurrection. Peter explains. 1 Peter 4:5-6Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.If the dead are not as important as the living, then why bother? Listen to the words of Paul.1 Corinthians 15:16-23For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.Now we know why we Sing a New Song.Isaiah 42:8-10I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto the Lord a new song.